Shoegaze

Shoegaze - indie/alternative rock subgenre characterized by an ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume. Article “Shoegaze” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Shoegaze” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Shoegaze”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1433 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7004 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #10948 in June 2026
• Global: #6820 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #39793 in May 2020
• Global: #10400 in November 2025

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Shoegaze		100
2	Indonesian (id) Shoegaze		63.3772
3	Estonian (et) Shoegaze		55.4287
4	Swedish (sv) Shoegazing		48.202
5	Portuguese (pt) Shoegaze		47.0809
6	Malay (ms) Shoegaze		46.2609
7	Russian (ru) Шугейз		39.8896
8	Slovenian (sl) Shoegazing		37.2187
9	Spanish (es) Shoegaze		31.6627
10	Chinese (zh) 瞪鞋搖滾		30.7807

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shoegaze" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shoegaze		11 289 928
2	Japanese (ja) シューゲイザー		1 358 689
3	Spanish (es) Shoegaze		1 169 133
4	Russian (ru) Шугейз		1 138 671
5	German (de) Shoegazing		714 299
6	Italian (it) Shoegaze		575 294
7	French (fr) Shoegaze (genre musical)		547 745
8	Portuguese (pt) Shoegaze		341 060
9	Polish (pl) Shoegaze		318 150
10	Chinese (zh) 瞪鞋搖滾		171 338

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shoegaze" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shoegaze		51 661
2	Japanese (ja) シューゲイザー		4 886
3	Russian (ru) Шугейз		3 305
4	Spanish (es) Shoegaze		2 926
5	German (de) Shoegazing		2 269
6	French (fr) Shoegaze (genre musical)		2 267
7	Italian (it) Shoegaze		1 925
8	Portuguese (pt) Shoegaze		1 110
9	Chinese (zh) 瞪鞋搖滾		1 092
10	Polish (pl) Shoegaze		926

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Shoegaze" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shoegaze		570
2	Spanish (es) Shoegaze		124
3	German (de) Shoegazing		97
4	Italian (it) Shoegaze		89
5	French (fr) Shoegaze (genre musical)		86
6	Russian (ru) Шугейз		72
7	Japanese (ja) シューゲイザー		62
8	Dutch (nl) Shoegaze		43
9	Croatian (hr) Shoegazing		27
10	Portuguese (pt) Shoegaze		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Shoegaze" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shoegaze		7
2	Russian (ru) Шугейз		2
3	Basque (eu) Shoegaze		1
4	Simple English (simple) Shoegaze		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şuqeyzinq		0
6	Belarusian (be) Шугейз		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Шугейзинг		0
8	Catalan (ca) Shoegazing		0
9	Danish (da) Shoegazing		0
10	German (de) Shoegazing		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Shoegaze" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shoegaze		2 452
2	Spanish (es) Shoegaze		493
3	Russian (ru) Шугейз		431
4	French (fr) Shoegaze (genre musical)		409
5	Japanese (ja) シューゲイザー		361
6	Italian (it) Shoegaze		351
7	German (de) Shoegazing		275
8	Portuguese (pt) Shoegaze		272
9	Polish (pl) Shoegaze		182
10	Dutch (nl) Shoegaze		170

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Şuqeyzinq
be	Belarusian Шугейз
bg	Bulgarian Шугейзинг
ca	Catalan Shoegazing
da	Danish Shoegazing
de	German Shoegazing
el	Greek Σουγκέιζινγκ
en	English Shoegaze
es	Spanish Shoegaze
et	Estonian Shoegaze
eu	Basque Shoegaze
fa	Persian شوگیز
fi	Finnish Shoegazing
fr	French Shoegaze (genre musical)
gl	Galician Shoegazing
he	Hebrew שוגייז
hr	Croatian Shoegazing
hu	Hungarian Shoegazing
id	Indonesian Shoegaze
it	Italian Shoegaze
ja	Japanese シューゲイザー
ka	Georgian შუგეიზინგი
ko	Korean 슈게이징
ms	Malay Shoegaze
nl	Dutch Shoegaze
no	Norwegian Shoegaze
pl	Polish Shoegaze
pt	Portuguese Shoegaze
ro	Romanian Shoegazing
ru	Russian Шугейз
simple	Simple English Shoegaze
sl	Slovenian Shoegazing
sr	Serbian Шугејз
sv	Swedish Shoegazing
th	Thai ชูเกซ
tr	Turkish Shoegazing
uk	Ukrainian Шугейзинг
vi	Vietnamese Shoegazing
zh	Chinese 瞪鞋搖滾

Best Rank

Simple English: #39793 05.2020

Global: #10400 11.2025

Best Rank

Simple English: #10948 06.2026

Global: #6820 09.2009

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